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Boyadzhiev, Peter S., Todorov, Ivaylo A. (2013): Description of a new species of Stepanovia Kostjukov (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) from Bulgaria. Revue suisse de Zoologie 120 (3): 347-356, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5828677, {"references":["BOYADZHIEV, P., GETCHEV, T. & DONEV, A. 2012. A universal microscope manipulator. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 56(1): 125-129.","EFREMOVA, Z. 1996. The ovipositor of Eulophinae (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae), its evolution and taxonomic significance. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 75(4): 888-902.","GRAHAM, M. W. R. DE V. 1987. A reclassification of the European Tetrastichinae (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), with a revision of certain genera. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 55(1): 1-392.","GIBSON, G. A. P. 1997. Chapter 2. Morphology and terminology (pp. 16-44). In: GIBSON, G. A. P., HUBER, J. T. & WOOLLEY, J. B. (eds). Annotated keys to the genera of Nearctic Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). NRC Research Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 794 pp.","KOSTJUKOV, V. V. 2004. About status of the genus Aprostocetus Westwood, 1833 (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae, Tetrastichinae), with description of Stepanovia, gen. n. In: NADIKTI, V. D., ISMAILOVA, V.Y., LEVASHOVA, G.I. & SUGONJAEV, E.S. (eds). Biologicheskaya Zashchita rasteniy - osnova stabilizatsii agrozkosistem, Krasnodar 1: 36-44.","KOSTJUKOV, V. V., GOKHMAN, V. E. & MIKHAILENKO, A. P. 2009. Description and karyotype of a new species of Stepanovia Kostjukov, 2004 (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae). Russian Entomological Journal 17(4): 413-415.","NOYES, J. S. 2013. Universal Chalcidoidea Database, World Wide Web electronic publication. The Natural History Museum, London. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/chalcidoids","TODOROV, I., STOJANOVA, A., PARVANOV, D. & BOYADZHIEV, P. 2012. Studies on the gall community of Diplolepis rosae (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in Vitosha Mountain, Bulgaria. Acta zoologica bulgarica, Supplementum 4: 27-37."]}

WOS: 000286013600004 This study was carried out to determine Eulophidae species, they have economical important for biological control, collected in various habitats in 2000 and between 2006-2008 in some provinces of Turkey. Specimens were collected with swepping net and reared materials especially on Agromyzidae leafminer species (Diptera: Agromyzidae). By identifying of the specimens, 23 species of 8 genera were determined in different localities. Of these species, 8 are new records for Turkish Eulophidae fauna. These species are: Dicladocerus westwoodi Westwood, 1832, Pnigalio nemati (Westwood, 1838), Chrysocharis pubens Delucchi, 1958, Neochrysocharis aratus (Walker, 1838), Pediobius brachycerus (Thomson, 1878), P. eubius (Walker, 1839), P. flaviscapus (Thomson, 1878), Sympiesis viridula (Thomson, 1878). With this study, the number of Turkish eulophid species were updated to 199 species that was previously 189 species.

Entedonomphale carbonaria (Erdös, 1954) (Figs 1–4) Thripoctenoides carbonarius Erdös 1954: 345 + fig. 12 c (p. 346). Type locality: Tompa, Hungary. Entedonomphale carbonaria (Erdös): Triapitsyn 2005: 285 –286 (taxonomic history, synonymy, references, diagnosis, illustrations, distribution); Boyadzhiev & Triapitsyn 2007: 736 (key to the European species of Entedonomphale), 740–741 (record of the fully winged female from Oregon, USA). Thripoctenoides kaulbarsi Yoshimoto 1981: 723 –725. Type locality: Riceville, Ontario, Canada. Syn. n. Entedonomphale kaulbarsi (Yoshimoto): Triapitsyn 2005: 277 –278 (taxonomic history, references, diagnosis, illustrations, description of the male, distribution). Thripoctenoides albicoxis Szelényi 1982: 387 –388. Type locality: Nagyiván, Hungary. Synonymized under E. carbonaria by Triapitsyn 2005: 285. New material examined. BULGARIA. Montana Region, Reservoir Ogosta (near Montana), 43 ° 23 ’09’’N 23 ° 12 ’ 53 ’’E, 175 m, 9.iv. 2005, A.K. Antonov (sweeping grasslands) [1 brachypterous female and 1 fully winged female, PUPB]. Distribution. Bulgaria, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, and USA (Triapitsyn 2005, Boyadzhiev & Triapitsyn 2007). Comments. As previously suspected by Triapitsyn (2005) and Boyadzhiev & Triapitsyn (2007), the female of E. kaulbarsi indeed turned out to be just a brachypterous form of E. carbonaria. The antennae and other morphological features are identical among E. kaulbarsi from Canada and the specimens of E. carbonaria from Bulgaria and Hungary, hence the synonymy. Coloration of the legs seems to be quite variable in this species: the legs of the brachypterous female from near Montana, Bulgaria, are pale brown while the legs of the fully winged female from the same location are mostly brown to dark brown. To assist with recognition of E. carbonaria, which has never been properly illustrated, we provide photographs of the antenna (Fig. 1) and the reduced fore- (Fig. 2) and hind (Fig. 3) wings of the brachypterous female, as well as the forewing and the hind wing (Fig. 4) of the macropterous female., Published as part of Triapitsyn, Serguei V., Boyadzhiev, Peter S. & Antonov, Anton K., 2008, Taxonomic notes on Entedonomphale (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), pp. 61-64 in Zootaxa 1816 on page 61, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274368, {"references":["Erdos, J. (1954) Eulophidae hungaricae indescriptae. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Series Nova), 5, 323 - 366.","Triapitsyn, S. V. (2005) Revision of Ceranisus and the related thrips-attacking entedonine genera (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) of the world. African Invertebrates, 46, 261 - 315.","Boyadzhiev, P. S. & Triapitsyn, S. V. (2007) Description of a new species of Entedonomphale (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) from Bulgaria, with notes on E. carbonaria. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 114 (4), 735 - 741.","Yoshimoto, C. M. (1981) First record of Thripoctenoides from North America, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae). The Canadian Entomologist, 113 (8), 723 - 725.","Szelenyi, G. (1982) Further data to the torymid, pteromalid and eulophid fauna of the Hortobagy National Park, Hungary (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 28, 379 - 388."]}

Entedonomphale postmarginalis (Shafee, Rizvi & Khan, 1988), comb. n. (Figs 5, 6) Euderomphale postmarginalis Shafee, Rizvi & Khan 1988: 2 (description, key [as E. Postmarginalis]), 3 (illustrations, figs D and E [as E. Postmarginalis]). Type locality: Bullandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, India. Entedonastichus postmarginalis (Shafee, Rizvi & Khan): Hayat et al. 2005: 10 (type information). Type material examined. Holotype female [ZDAMU] dissected on two slides, as follows. Slide 1 (head, one antenna, mesosoma and most of metasoma, and legs (with some segments missing) [under two coverslips]), labeled: 1. “Ref. No. 723 sp. n.”, 2. “ HOLOTYPE Euderomphale postmarginalis Shafee, Rizvi & Khan det. M. Hayat, 2003 ”; Slide 2 (one antenna, one forewing, and the ovipositor [under the same coverslip]), labeled: 1. “ 723 [in pencil] Ref. No 723 sp. n.”, 2. “ HOLOTYPE parts Euderomphale postmarginalis Shafee, Rizvi & Khan det. M. Hayat, 2003 ”. Diagnosis. Body and appendages mostly dark brown. Toruli slightly below lover ocular line. Antenna (Fig. 5) with scape (not counting a small radicle) 4.1 x as long as wide, a little dilated basally and medially. Pedicel longer than funicle; F 1 a little smaller than F 2, 1.1-1.5 x as wide as long, apparently without longitudinal sensilla; F 2 1.6 x as wide as long, at least with 1 longitudinal sensillum; clava entire, 1.6-1.7 x as long as wide. Mesosoma shorter than metasoma. Midlobe of mesoscutum with 1 pair of setae; anterior margin of scutellum slightly angulate. Forewing (Fig. 6) about 3.1 x as long as wide, with disc almost hyaline (with a slight brownish tinge throughout, perhaps a little more pronounced behind marginal and stigmal veins) and setose behind marginal and stigmal veins and beyond venation (more sparsely so behind base of marginal vein, and bare posterior of cubital row of setae); stigmal vein about as long as postmarginal vein; the longest marginal seta about 1 / 2 of maximal forewing width. Petiole longer than wide. Entedonomphale postmarginalis is undoubtedly a good species. In Triapitsyn (2005), E. postmarginalis would key to the couplets together with the species that have a hyaline forewing (i.e., E. boccaccioi S. Triapitsyn from the USA, E. bicolorata (Ishii) from Japan, Germany, and Ukraine, and E. esenini S. Triapitsyn from Madagascar). Entedonomphale postmarginalis differs from all of them by the female antenna, both funicle segments of which are wider than long (Fig. 5). Comments. This species was described (and is still known) from a single female holotype “ex aleyrodid on Citrus sp.” (Shafee et al. 1988). The host record seems doubtful and thus needs verification., Published as part of Triapitsyn, Serguei V., Boyadzhiev, Peter S. & Antonov, Anton K., 2008, Taxonomic notes on Entedonomphale (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), pp. 61-64 in Zootaxa 1816 on pages 62-63, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274368, {"references":["Shafee, S. A., Rizvi, S. & Khan, M. Y. (1988) A new tribe and three new species of Eulophidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Indian Journal of Systematic Entomology, 5 (1), 1 - 4","Hayat, M., Aftab, H. & Perveen, S. (2005) Taxonomic notes on Indian Eulophidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) - 2. On the types of some Eulophinae, Entedoninae and Euderinae. Oriental Insects, 39, 1 - 14.","Triapitsyn, S. V. (2005) Revision of Ceranisus and the related thrips-attacking entedonine genera (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) of the world. African Invertebrates, 46, 261 - 315."]}